ort
DATELINE
($) -Admission charged

Exhibits:
CAED Gallery: "Our Turn" faculty
exhibit. Through Tuesday (April 15),
9 am.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Reception, 5 p.m. Friday (April 11).

Wednesday AprU 9
Music: Darrell Voss Duo, BackStage
Pizza, 11 am.
Cal Poly Authors Celebration:
Faculty, staff authors to be honored,
library's rear lobby, 5 p.m.
Open Forum: On the situation in Iraq,
Philips Hall, 7 p.m.

Thursday, April10
C3RP (California Central Coast
Research Partnership) Speaker:
David Cremin (DFJ Frontier Fund),
"Venture Capital for Your Idea,"
Chumash, 11 am.
Music: Peter, Paul and Mary, Chris­
topher Cohan Center's Harman Hall,
8 p.m.($)

Friday, April

n

Hearst Lecture: Beth Diamond
(landscape design theoretician), "The
Spaces Between," Business Rotunda
(Room 213), 3:10p.m.
Music: Travis Larson Band, BackStage
Pizza, 6 p.m.
Dance Concert-Lessons: University
Jazz Band Swing Dance Concert, 8 p.m.
($) Free dance lessons, Chumash, 7 p.m.
Also May 23.

Saturday, Aprii1Z
Comedy: 'An Evening oflmprov
Comedy,' Theatre, 7:30p.m. ($)

Sunday, Aprl113
· Music: Naked to the World duo
(singer-songwriter-guitarist Kevin
Fisher and multi-instrumentalist David
James), Christopher Cohan Center's
Pavilion, 3 p.m.
Performance: Studs Terkel's "Ameri­
can Dreams: Lost and Found," 7 p.m.
($) Pre-program lecture by Patricia
Troxel (English), Philips Hall, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, April15
C3RP Speaker: Thomas F. Lebens
(patent attorney), "All About Patents,"
Science E-27, 11 am. 0

Digest

California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
Vol. 2, No. 27 • April 9, 2003

Pub lished by Public Affa1rs • www cal po ly edu ·-communlc

Diversity Initiatives Progress Report now online
At the start of the 2002-2003 academic
year, President Baker set an institutional
agenda for three interrelated priority initia­
tives: student success, diversity and civility.
Since that time, diversity initiatives
focusing on admissions and recruitment;
retention and support programs/services;
civility/campus climate; and public state­
ments and documents have been coordi­
nated under the direction of the Univer­
sity Diversity Enhancement Council
(UDEC), established by Provost Zingg in
2001.
The Diversity Initiatives Progress Re­
port is available online at http://www.

academics. calpoly. eduldivers ity/uded

documents/Progress02-03.pdf
The report, compiled by Denise
Campbell, special assistant to the provost
for university initiatives, "identifies im­
portant steps taken in recent months to
meet President Baker's Fall Convocation
directives," Campbell said.
It is linked from both the University
Diversity Enhancement Council Web site

(http://www.academics.calpoly.eduldiver­
sity/index.htm) and Cal Poly Diversity Web
site (http://www.academics.ca/poly. edul
diversity/public_html!diversity/index.html).
Contact Campbell at ext. 6-6220 or

dcampbel@calpoly.edu with questions or
comments about the content ofthe report. 0

lew system allows 'paperless' employment process
OnApril15 Cal Poly will implement
"calpolyjobs.org," a state-of-the art employ­
ment system to replace the labor-intensive,
paper-based system for all faculty and staff
positions. The new software will enable
online Web-based processing of:
• Job requisitions to advertise positions
(startingApril15);
• Job postings offaculty, staff and
management positions (starting April 18);
• Job applications for faculty, staff and
management positions (starting April 18);
• Screening of applicant materials; and
• Submission and review of appoint­
ment recommendations.
The entire recruitment and application
process for all employee vacancies will be
nearly paperless. All participants involved
in the hiring process- including job seek­
ers, search committees, employment
equity.facilitators, department chairs/

heads and deans -will be able to perform
their functions from any computer with
Internet access and a Web browser (such
as Internet Explorer). All Cal Poly work­
stations have this capability.
On Thursday (April 10) from 11 a.m. to
noon, an open forum will provide an over­
view ofthe new system, focusing primarily
on faculty recruitment processes.
On April 24, an open forum will focus
on staff recruitment processes. Open fo­
rums are presented in Philips Hall in the
Performing Arts Center. Go to http://

www. academic-personnel. calpoly. edul
announce.html or http://www.afd.calpoly.
edu!HREFJindex.html for more infonna­
tion about calpolyjobs.org.
Workshops to implement recruitment
for part-time lecturer pools begin April15.
Enroll on the ITS training Web site at

http://training.calpoly.edu/. 0

Preventing sexual harassment to be focus of training
The Campus Relations office is pro­
viding two training sessions in sexual
harassment prevention on April23. The
training is designed to meet the campus
requirement for new employees to com­
plete two hours of sexual harassment
training before the end of their second
quarter of employment.
The first session, designed for staff

members and management personnel, will
be 9-11 am. The second is for faculty
members and department heads and chairs
and is set for 1-3 p.m. Both sessions will
be in UU220.
Although each session is designated for
certain classifications, anyone is welcome
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CAL POLY REPORT DIGEST, APRIL 9, 2003

Funding available
for 'assistive devices'
The Cal Poly Disability Accommoda­
tion Assistance Program provides funding
assistance for employees who qualify
under the Americans with Disabilities
Act. The funding is provided to the
employee's department for buying
assistive devices not considered to be
standard office equipment.
More information about the program is
on the Campus Relations Web site at www.
calpoly.edu/-ocrleedlada. To submit are­
quest for funding or for more information,
call Campus Relations at ext. 6-6770. 0

Hunger, Homelessness
Awareness Week' set
Student Community Services and the
campus c1ub Beyond Shelter are sponsor­
ing Hunger and Homelessness Awareness
Week April 11-19 to raise awareness
about homelessness and hunger on the
Central Coast and in the world at large.
Events include a San Luis Obispo Art
Center exhibit of work created by the
homeless; a "Walk to End Homelessness"
fund-raiser; an "Experience a Night With­
out Shelter," with students sleeping
outside in the UU Plaza; a community
forum on homelessness; a food and
''needed-items" drive; a "hunger banquet'.' .
featuring a typical meal of a person living
in an impover-ished Third-World country;
and a "Fast to End Hunger."
For more information, or to make a
donation, call Student Community Ser­
vices at ext. 6-5120. For a complete list of
events or a pledge form for the fund-rais­
ing walk, visit http://scs.calpoly.edu/. 0

llew Poly Reps selected
Twenty students have been chosen as
Poly Reps and will promote the university
to prospective students, alumni and friends.
The students join 10 continuing mem­
bers of Poly Reps, the Cal Poly Student
Alumni Council. The group's activities
include leading campus tours and visiting
high schools and community colleges as
student representatives of the university.
The students also work to develop
alumni ties, help with university constitu­
ent groups and assist efforts to encourage
support from potential donors.
Admissions, Alumni Relations, Stu­
dent Affairs and the Library sponsor
PolyReps. 0

FOR MORE NEWS, VISIT THE CAL.POLY REPORT ONLINE AT www.calpoly.edu/-communic .

Situation in Iraq to-be
topic of open forum
An open forum on the situation in Iraq is

planned for 7-8:30 p.m._tonight (April9) in
the Christopher Cohan Center's·Philips
Hall. A moderator will preside, and each
person's remarks will.be limited to about
two minutes, depending on the number
who wish to speak.
This forum is the final in a series of
four ''town meetings." If interest contin­
ues, additional meetings will be held. The
meetings were intended to provide an
opportunity for members of the.University
and local communities to express their
_
views on the-subject.
The forums are sponsored by the divi­
sions ofAcademic Affairs and Student
Affairs. For more inforniation, call Aca­
demic Programs at ext. 6-2246; 0

Activities planned as part

PositiOn Vacancies
STATE The offieialllsting ofstafrand management
vacancies is posted at least two weeks prior to
closing dates on Cal Poly's Web site at WllllltC/$0(Jl
edu. (Select "Employment" from the Cai'Poly Jinks
drop-down box.) As a courtesy to our on-campus
employees, job v·acancies also are published in the
Cal Poly Report. Positions marked With an asterisk
Indicate that qualified on-campus appJicants In
bargaining units :Z, 5, 7 and 9 will be given first
consideration. Job applications muSt be received in
_Human Resources, Adm. 110, by 5 p.m. on the
clOsing date.

ASSOCIATED STUDEIITS UIC. is accepting
applications for the "following position. Complete
position descriptions and appJications ~re-available
at the ASI Business Office, UU :Zl:Z, 8 a.m.-5 p.m M­
F, or call ext. 6-5800. All a_ppllcations must be
received by 5 p.m. of the listed closing date. AAI
EOE.
University Union Program Coordln~ttor,
salary range $43,926-$70,281/year, plus excellent
benefits. Closing date: Friday (April 11 ); tentative
start date: July 1. 0
·

Leal(e solicitation

Edward Weipert, an electricjan in Fa­
cility Services, has qualified for personal
Employees, students and their families
catastrophic leave: Eligible state employ­
will have an opportunity to learn about
ees may·donate vacation _credit and/or
the signs and symptoms of alcohol abuse
sick leaveto help him remain in full-pay
and alcohol dependence during National · status during an extended absence. ·
Alcohol Screening Day on Thursday
Those interested in donating leave may
(April 10) in the UU are11.
request a Catastrophic Le!lve Donation
The program is being held as part of
form from solicitation· coordinator Anita
National Alcohol Awareness· Month.
Biggs in Facility Services at ext. 6-5212
Representatives from Health and
or by e-mail.
·
Counseling Services will be in the UU
CSEA employees in units 2, 5, 7 and 9,
Plaza from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. distributing
Unit 4 (academic professionalS}, Unit6
material and administering a confidential
(state employees trades CO\lDCil), E99
written self-test for alcohol abuse and
(excluded), C99 (confidential), MSO
alcohol dependence. Appointments are
(management personnel plan), and M98
not necessary.
(executive) may donate up to 40 hours
For more information, see the April 9
total per fiscal year in increments of one
online Cal Poly Report at http:// __ · ·
hour or more. AJI.other state employees
calpol)inews. calpoly.edulcpreportl
· may donate up to 16 hours sick leave and/ •
reportindex.html or call Counseling Ser­
or vacation credits per fiscal year in incre­
vices at ext. .6-2511. 0
ments of one hour oi more: 0

of alcohol screening day

Sexual harassment
contin'uedfrom page 1
to attend either session. The morning ses­
sion will give examples specific to staff ·
members, and the afternoon ·sessiori will
be directed primarily toward the faculty.
Information will be given about the cam~
pus policy on sexual harassment, the
employee's responsibility, and the han­
·
dling of difficultsituations.
To register, contact the Campus Rela­
tions office at ext. 6-6770 or e-mail· lcofer@calpoly. edu. 0
··

·. Clll Poly Report schedule
The Cal Poly Report Digest ~d the _
Cal Poly Report online appear every .
Wednesday druing the academic year.
The online version can be seen at ·
www.calpoly.edu/~ommunic.

Articles for both the.onliD.e Cal.Poly
Report and the Cal Poly Report Digest are
due to Public Affairs by 10
Wednesday,
one week before publication: Articles can
be e-mailed to polynews@polymail.calfoly.
edu or faxed to ext. 6-6533. For more irifor­
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